Shay Spivey

Bootstraps Aren't Real

Like many others, I spent the past year in somewhat of a daze. I stopped working in mid-March and subsequently found myself lost in a sea of minimum wage job postings. I would scroll endlessly through every job board, searching for something to bring my bank account back up to at least double digits. It's been nearly a year and I still find myself spending my days in almost the exact same way I did when all this started. It really feels like I've logged "10,000 hours" into job searching, without actually becoming an expert at anything worthwhile. As you can imagine, putting all that effort in with no result can start to feel tedious, it seems that it may have also warped my own self-image.